Sabich is a kind of oriental food that has become pretty much popular over the last 10 years. I must admit that I have never tried it. I just noticed more and more small oriental fast-food buffets popping up in the area, so that it could not be ignored. When i once witnessed my friend Donna, a sophisticated down-town Tel Aviv dweller, send her three young daughters to go and buy themselves a sabich for lunch, this was a sure sign in my eyes that sabich is something, not just an ephemeral trend. But I still didn't know what it really was and all my friend Donna could tell me about it was that it consists of pitta bread with lots of goodies stuffed inside.
Then I happened to hear my friend Yossi mention that sabich is a real calories bomb; so I asked him: "What exactly is sabich?". His eyes sparkled and he cried out: "Ah, sabich! How come you don't know what sabich is? I don't believe it!". "Well, believe it, I don't know what it is, so please tell me!". Then Yossi the physician became the boy whose parents immigrated from Iraq in the fifties; he told me that sabich is something Iraqi Jews would eat religiously every Saturday morning after coming back from synagogue. His mother would take an Iraqi pitta bread (http://www.mideastweb.org/recipes.htm) and fill it with hummus, chopped tomato salad, a hard-boiled egg, a slice of fried eggplant, potatoes and some tahina on top. So now I knew why I never ate it: it's just too much for my delicate stomach - but Yossi said that it is so tasty that it's really hard for him to refrain from eating it now.
So much about sabich. For those who are planning to come to Israel, here is an article about the first sabich buffet in Israel - and more:
http://www.gemsinisrael.com/e_article000039492.htm
For those who'd like to make their own sabich, here is a recipe:
http://everything2.com/title/sabich.
Enjoy!
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